"Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers" (Signed)

    "Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers" (Signed)

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    New Signed Book by One of America's Best Fishing Writers

    Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life.

    "Dumb Luck" looks back to the long-ago day when the author bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and he just knew he was in the right place. The “voice of the common angler” (The Wall Street Journal), he offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.

    “After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes). Now, in his latest fresh and original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world.

    “Gierach’s deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller...His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber” (Publishers Weekly). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is “an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives.”

    Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish “in the usual amateur way.” The “voice of the common angler” (The Wall Street Journal), he offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.

    Hardcover

    5.5 x 8.4 inches

    240 pages

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    Customer Reviews

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    Carl Rotter
    Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

    Writing is good. He always tells s great story. I was disappointed in the quality of the edition. Paper seems cheap. Font is smaller. Print is less crisp. Just doesn't seem the quality manufacturing of previous books.

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    Leif Yeckley

    This guy is the real deal👍

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    Frank Hume
    Question:

    Gierach under the influence when signing?

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    Pat Sexton
    Thanks

    This will be a gift!

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    Barlow Rhodes
    Haven’t finished it yet

    Haven’t finished the book yet!